What Would Jennifer Do

Made some very somber graphics this week with Peter Coy outlining the past five years of Obama’s economy.
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Found a funny cat photo online? You can post it on Pinterest, tweet it, Tumblr it, or Facebook it—but Maria Popova, the blogger behind the popular Brainpickings website, says you’d better be sure to cite where you found it. Popova spends hours each day finding links to share with her audience, and argues that curating others’ work makes her just as much a creator as the people she blogs about. And just as deserving of credit. “Discovery of information is a form of intellectual labor,” she said to the New York Times. “When we don’t honor discovery, we are robbing somebody’s time and labor.” She’s proposed the “Curator’s Code” to standardize attribution on the Web, with two new characters that would work much like the © symbol used to indicate copyright:

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Stands for “via”; use it to credit the source when retweeting or reposting something without altering it

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Stands for a “hat tip”; place it alongside content taken from elsewhere and then altered significantly (such as adding analysis to someone else’s chart)

But surely there are more than just two ways to discover content! Consult this handy guide next time you share anything online. (And don’t forget to credit the author of this article with a ↬, thank you very much.)

The Expanded Curator’s Code

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I found this in a New York Times article

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Saw it in a Pitchfork album review

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Chain e-mail forwarded from Uncle Seymour

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Overheard in Starbucks

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Saw it out my window

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Ancient proverb

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Today’s horoscope for Capricorns

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Quote from a Tim Burton Movie

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Scrawled on a bathroom stall

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Hippie Dad quote

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Tip left by a Foursquare Mayor

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God told me

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WebMD diagnosis

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Lyric from Dashboard Confessional

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Quote from last night’s Bachelorette

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I can’t remember—and may have totally just made this up

My goofy satirical diatribe originally appeared in BusinessWeek.

Made this little graphic this week of Mr. Nouri’s Starwood points using dingbats. Nothing says “classy elite travel” like Wingdings and Webdings.

Have you seen this week’s cover? You did? Well, did you see this chart I created for Brad Stone‘s story about my favorite thing on the internet that is safe for work…. Twitter?

Using an organizational chart as a base I overlaid who had what job at Twitter and when. Noteably, many of these guys hired from Google and the turnover on an executive level is high.

This chart was made possible by LinkedIn (It’s a San Francisco city ordinance that everyone has  a profile) and Favstar.fm (they keep track of your most popular tweets).

Sure, the Knicks point guard is suddenly famous. But is his rise historic? Google Trends calculates the popularity of a search term in any given week and charts how much it deviates from its average. Even relative to other meteorically famous people and things, Lin is in a league of his own. Q.E.D. Linsanity.

I’ve been doing regular illustrations for the Tech Blog at Businessweek. Today, The Science of Forgetting Stupid Shit by Drake Bennet.

For President’s weekend I present to you… the codenames of the white house.

Now that BusinessWeek is blogging, I’m also doing some illustrations for the internet. Today, your morning Coffee App.

Quickie graphic with Karen Weise this week on Facebook’s IPO and what to expect next.

The original here.

Fact: is required by information graphics law, that every graphics designer loves airplane safety cards.

I drew a few myself this week… but why are you looking at my illustrations when you could be gazing into the eyes of two copulating planes?